How to set forgot password?

Question

How to set forgot password for window based application? Without sending mail at email-id if user has forgot his mail then what will be the alternative solution?

Ankita Ankita · Answer

Thanks for ur reply but it wont b secure. Any one who knows other user's id can just by clicking in forgot paasword set new password n use it. Do you have more secure solution?

Satyapriya Nayak · Answer

Hi Ankita, Try this... using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Data.OleDb; namespace Forgot_password { public partial class Form1 : Form { string ConnectionString = System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["dsn"]; OleDbCommand com; string str; byte up = 0; //OleDbDataAdapter oledbda; public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } private void btn_change_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { OleDbConnection con = new OleDbConnection(ConnectionString); if (textBox3.Text != textBox2.Text) { MessageBox.Show("confirm password not matching with new passsword"); textBox3.Focus(); return; } try { con = new OleDbConnection(ConnectionString); con.Open(); str = "select * from login"; com = new OleDbCommand(str, con); OleDbDataReader reader = com.ExecuteReader(); while (reader.Read()) { if (textBox1.Text == reader["empid"].ToString()) { up = 1; } } if (up == 1) { str = "update login set newpwd='" + textBox3.Text + "' where empid='" + textBox1.Text + "'"; com = new OleDbCommand(str, con); com.ExecuteNonQuery(); MessageBox.Show("Password changed"); } else { MessageBox.Show("Please enter correct empid and Newpassword"); textBox1.Focus(); } reader.Close(); con.Close(); } catch (Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show(ex.Message); } } } } Thanks